PETA Compares Whale Hunting In "Assassin's Creed 4" To Slavery

In an interview with Polygon, PETA's spokesperson Matt Bruce expressed his disappointment in Ubisoft's upcoming Assassin's Creed sequel for its whale hunting. Bruce told Polygon, "In Assassin's Creed 4, you get ahead by killing. Joe Shmoe who plays this game in his mother's basement in the safety and comfort of his home will feel a sense of accomplishment by killing this whale."

As if that wasn't enough, when asked about whaling's historical relevance to the set time period, Bruce replied, "If there was a game that took place in pre-Civil War America where your character had to enslave people, people would definitely have a problem with that because they would feel like it was glorifying the enslavement of people."